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...podium to present the bill, Ohio Republican Delbert Latta, co-author of the Administration's proposal, discovered that the drafters had left out any money for bilingual education. He penciled in a sum, but perhaps mistakenly made it $85 million rather than the $157 million requested by President Reagan and approved by the Republican-controlled Senate. The House bill contains no funds at all for Project Head Start, which prepares poor children for school, even though Reagan in February had named it as a program he did not want to cut, much less eliminate; Republican leaders decided to deal...
...respectable 77%, down slightly from 80.3% in 1977. The first television projection showing Labor ahead, however slightly, brought a roar of delight from party politicians and supporters, who had been out of office since 1977. Peres was greeted with a thunderous ovation as he went to the podium at Labor headquarters in Tel Aviv, where he embraced his longtime rival, Yitzhak Rabin, a former Prime Minister, and received bouquets of flowers from children. An earnest, sad-eyed intellectual, Peres was uplifted by the acclamation of the crowd. Introduced as "the next Prime Minister of Israel," he declared, "I think...
...sort of speaking engagement any President would enjoy. Ronald Reagan, however, seemed to take particular relish last week in addressing the 182nd commencement exercises at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. Striding to the podium amid the rousing strains of Hail to the Chief, Reagan was greeted by thunderous applause from the 906 graduating cadets and 26,000 spectators in the academy's Michie Stadium. Then, in a speech lasting 25 minutes, interrupted 15 times by applause, Reagan declared that the country had grown out of its "Viet Nam syndrome" and vowed to continue his battle...
There were also grim reminders of the heightened security measures that have been taken since the President was shot on March 30. Sharpshooters were positioned on the top steps of the bleachers in Michie Stadium, constantly scanning the crowd. Cadets with seats near the podium were required to walk through metal detectors before entering the stadium. The President was whisked by helicopter between the academy and Stewart Airport in Newburgh, N.Y., where Air Force One had landed; he did not stop to answer reporters' questions, as he normally did before the assassination attempt...
...facing the worst economic crisis in living memory," roared Marxist Union Leader Arthur Scargill. "Young people are being thrown on the scrap heap. We have to take the fight for jobs into the streets!" As Scargill stepped back from the podium, his audience of 2,000 Young Socialists jumped to their feet and broke into wild applause. Assembled at the seaside resort of Bridlington for their annual conference, the young foot soldiers of the Marxist left spent three days berating the established order. They joined in choruses of the worldwide revolutionary anthem, the Internationale. After each refrain, they raised their...